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    SEA TURTLE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seasplay

    Synonyms:

    marine turtle; sea turtle

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("sea turtle" is a kind of...):

    turtle (any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea turtle"):

    Chelonia mydas; green turtle (large tropical turtle with greenish flesh used for turtle soup)

    Caretta caretta; loggerhead; loggerhead turtle (very large carnivorous sea turtle; wide-ranging in warm open seas)

    ridley (a marine turtle)

    Eretmochelys imbricata; hawkbill; hawksbill; hawksbill turtle; tortoiseshell turtle (pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell)

    Dermochelys coriacea; leatherback; leatherback turtle; leathery turtle (wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle)

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